Re: Is there digital certificate equivalent for FTP

[Andrew Brown <firewall-wizards () lists graffiti com>]

> ssh supports using RSA keys for authentication, and ssh includes two ways to
> copy files - sftp and scp.  scp may be depreciated now that 1.2.27 supports
> sftp.  We force our web developers to use scp with RSA auth to transfer files to
> a web/ftp server rather than just allowing normal ftp.

that's ssh2, not 1.2.27.  :)

and i'd love to do the same with my "developers", but they're mostly
rather dense about this.

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